[newbie]
I was wondering if M10.1 already has a Webmail package. If not, I'm looking for suggestions on one. The only one I know of is SquirrelMail. Thanks! Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Wireless Mouse
Just wondering if anyone has had success using a wireless mouse on M10.1? I can't seem to get the basic mouse from MS to work correct. I'm using a USB to PS2 adapter. It should function like a standard PS2 3-button mouse w/ scroll wheel. Thanks! -- Regards, Matt Florido Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Mouse
* Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-16-2005 22:27]: Matt Florido wrote: Just wondering if anyone has had success using a wireless mouse on M10.1? I can't seem to get the basic mouse from MS to work correct. I'm using a USB to PS2 adapter. It should function like a standard PS2 3-button mouse w/ scroll wheel. Thanks! Dumb question time... Sorry for my ambiguity. 1: By USB to PS2 adapter, do you mean one of the adapters that come with some mice to let you plug a USB/PS2 mouse in a PS2 poet, or an adapterer that gives you a PS2 port on a USB connection? The mouse interface is USB. Adapter is so I can plug it into a PS2 port. 2: If you are plugging into a PS2 port, did the adpater come with the mouse, or is it from a different mouse? It's an adapter that came with the Microsoft mouse. In fact, all USB mice that I've purchased from MS come with this teal colored USB--PS2 adapter. 3: Has the mouse ever worked with this setup? The reasion I ask is that the adapters that let you plug a USB mouse into a PS2 port only work with mice designed to be used that way. From what I understand, they just connect the PS2 power and data connections to the power and data lines on the USB connector, and don't do anything else. So if your mouse doesn't know how to talk to a PS2 port, and send information like a PS2 mouse instead of a USB mouse, it will not work. Come to think of it, this is the basic MS Wireless Optical Mouse. I've used the adapter on other models. I use others on a KVM that only has PS2 and it works with no issues. You make a good point. I shouldn't assume this mouse works in a similar manner. -- Regards, Matt Florido Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Security Updates
Hi all, I am sure this has already been answered, but I didn't have much luck with the archives. I am using 10.1 community currently and when I try to add a security update source, it pops up telling me it is impossible to add the source and that it is most likely misconfigured. Is there a problem with curl or are the sites just down currently? Thanks in advance, -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Packages Installer
'update-menus -v -n' (without the quotes) as root and user Out of curiosity, what is the -n switch for? I did not see anything in the manpage. While trying it out, it seemed to create some different output to stdout, but that could have been because I was trying it out as a non-root user. Thanks, -- Matt Warden Berry Neuroscience Lab Department of Psychology Miami University This email proudly and graciously contributes to entropy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Odd Text Copy Problem in Firefox 0.8
Newbie, I am experiencing an odd and annoying problem in Firefox 0.8. When I open Firefox, I can copy text from the address bar or a webpage for a certain number of times. Then, suddenly, it ceases to work. The text I attempted to copy shows up nowhere in Klipper, even if I first click 'clear klipper history'. It is very frustrating, because I often have to resort to dragging text here and there. ANd if I want to copy text from one tab and paste it into another tab (this annoying problem is showing me happens more often than I would ahve thought), I have to drag it into my bookmarks bar, switch tabs, and drag it back into the tab I want. Even this does not always work, depending on what it is I'm trying to copy. Is this a known bug? If it's something that has been fixed in 0.9, then I will definitely bother with the upgrade. (A googling turned up nothing, but that's probably because 'copy' is such a common word with many different meanings.) Thanks for your help, list. -- Matt Warden Berry Neuroscience Lab Department of Psychology Miami University This email proudly and graciously contributes to entropy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Mount Problem
On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 00:45:39 -0500, Jeb Barger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem that I'm not sure how to fix. I messed up when I created the mount disk size. ie, \var\www\html is only 6gigs and \home is 20gigs This is now causing a problem because I am running out of space on the web side. How can I resize \var\www\html or how do I move it? I changed my httpd.conf to show the web directory in \home\web and I tried creating a symbolic link html to \home\web. Neither of these ideas worked. Any suggestions? I'm not sure what exactly you tried in httpd.conf, but you can certainly move the web root to /home. -- Matt Warden Berry Neuroscience Lab Department of Psychology Miami University This email proudly and graciously contributes to entropy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I am now a trator
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:33:29 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, very easy to administer. Not as 'l33t' as going in through SSH and editing iptables by hand, but who has time for that, right? One thing I never did understand about those Linksys doohickeys tho, why you cannot specify one port to be forwarded to an internal server, ie. port 80 to your webserver. You gotta put a *range* of ports, which strikes me as odd, but that could be because I'm an id10t. It's just for flexibility. Using ranges, it easily supports both single port openings and range port openings (when you think about it, they're actually the same -- the former is just a range over one port). So, to open up port 80 only, you would open the range of ports from 80 to 80. Many other applications, though, user a block of ten or so ports. If only single port openings were supported, you would have to open a port 10 times. -- Matt Warden Berry Neuroscience Lab Department of Psychology Miami University This email proudly and graciously contributes to entropy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm
On Jun 16, martin brandt had something to say about [newbie] Win partition... Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i have tried in Control centre/security/DrakePerm by adding a new rule, modifying the current rule (which i shouldnt be able to do i think i read somewhere). Is the partiction FAT32 or NTFS? By default you cannot write to an NTFS partition from linux. -- mattwarden mattwarden.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Forbbiden
On Jun 15, Mikkel L. Ellertson had something to say about Re: [newbie] Forbbiden OOzy wrote: What is the option exactly, I searched for it but no help. I searched for symlink, sym, sy, no, still could not find it. Unless someone else remember the exact wording, I guess I will have to dig up an Apache config file, and find it. It has been a while sence I had to configure a server, but I remember having to change it. It can be ether a global option, or specified for one directory tree, or class of directories. I do remember that the default setup in the version of RedHat I was using at the time had it turned off by default, and I wanted to include some HOWTOs in HTML format that didn't install in the web page tree. Try doing a search on link, instead of symlink... http://www.google.com/search?q=followsymlinks+site%3Aapache.org+-site%3Aarchive.apache.org -- mattwarden mattwarden.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Pop-up Blocker in Epiphany
Is there a pop-up blocker for Epiphany. I found some sources on a web site, but I have been unable to get them to work. Thanks for any help you can provide. I am running 10.0 Official and Gnome. -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Callwave
Does anyone know of a linux based alternative to Callwave? Or, does anyone know how to get Win4Lin to share my Linux dialup connection so that Windows can get on the internet when I am dialed in through linux? -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Callwave
Just purchased it today! I am very impressed...It gives me the ability to do with Windows what everyone should be able to doMinimize it when it gets in the way, lol. Anyways, I checked with Netraverse and they suggested using IP Masqurade and I dl'ed a generic script to test it out. -Matt Aaron wrote: I had the same problem with win4lin I remeber I had to disable proxy servers. Or check if you are using the correct network connection. I hope you are using a registered version of win4lin, there tech support is very good and has never failed me. Aaron On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 00:18, Matt Harrison wrote: Does anyone know of a linux based alternative to Callwave? Or, does anyone know how to get Win4Lin to share my Linux dialup connection so that Windows can get on the internet when I am dialed in through linux? -Matt __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] GAIM
Hi all, I am using Mandrake 9.2 and I have been trying to get GAIM to connect to Yahoo. It will connect to everything else, but it errors out on Yahoo and says that it is Unable to Read. I have the latest version of GAIM available through Mandrake Update. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, M. Harrison Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GAIM
That's good advice, but the problem I have now is, how do I apply the patch? -Matt Steve Hammond wrote: From the GAIM website at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/: January 28th, 2004 - 1:51PM EST Security vulnerabilities On Monday, several potential security vulnerabilities in Gaim 0.75 (and previous versions) were publicly disclosed by Stefan Esser. Due to problems with current Gaim CVS (Yahoo! still not working properly being the most influential) we are not yet ready to release 0.76. You are encouraged to get and apply this patch from the FreeBSD security team, released with the disclosure. That probably answers your question :) -stv From: Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] GAIM Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 08:38:31 -0500 Hi all, I am using Mandrake 9.2 and I have been trying to get GAIM to connect to Yahoo. It will connect to everything else, but it errors out on Yahoo and says that it is Unable to Read. I have the latest version of GAIM available through Mandrake Update. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, M. Harrison Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar get it now! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem Question
Has anyone had any luck getting 9.2 to work with a PCTEL 2304 WT V.92 MDC Modem. I have a Micron TransPort GX3 running 9.2. -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] YASP--(its own thread)
I have a Soundblaster Live Value that came with my Dell on the machine that I use now. It works just fine. I just had to change the driver that Mandrake selected to the other one. Here is the reply from Dennis that helped me out: Ah, sound, it is still a bit of a problem in linux. However the Soundblaster seems to be well supported so from console su and type in from the root prompt harddrake to get into the gui. Select your sblive by clicking on the icon and then in the lower right click on the configure button. You should see two selections one may be snd-emu10k1 and the other the just emu10k1. Mine works best using the emu10k1. Try whichever is not shown on the selection bar when it first pops up. HTH That worked out just fine for me. --Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] YASP--(its own thread) On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:14:56 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a suspicion that I have read that the Dell SBLives are not supported. Correct me, anyone? I was thinking that it only applied to Dells with the SB-5.1 not the SB value. But if it is the same a driver can be purchased yuck from http://www.opensound.com/ but for the cost of it, $30-45, a real SB card can be purchased. Charles -- Your depth of comprehension may tend to make you lax in worldly ways. - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] editing Mpeg home video
VCD's use MPEG files. You need a program that will convert the quicktime files to the right framerate/resolution/bitrate so that you can use them as a VCD. Next, you need a program to create the VCD. I'm brandnew to linux but I do this on Windoze. I use VirtualDub/TMPEG to create the right file and then VCDeasy to make the VCD's. It looks like they make VirtualDub for linux and the program MJPEG tools (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/) creates mpegs to use for VCD's. --Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of robin Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] editing Mpeg home video dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about [newbie] editing Mpeg home video Hi About a year or so ago I asked about a program that would allow me to split mpeg home videos into smaller sections. Luckily, a new version of cinelerra was just announced on the PLF mailing list. You might try that - just add PLF as one of your urpmi sources (in case you hadn't already) and urpmi cinelerra. It seems that it can do the job, and much more. I've only lightly used it in the past, but the new version looks very capable. However, it's a big resource pig. I tried it on a 650 meg AVI earlier today and all I got was a blank screen, and seemingly only 17 minutes loaded into the thing. That may be due to a resource issue -- as it was successful using a much smaller AVI (42 megs). My machine is a 1 ghz with 256 megs of RAM; I suspect underpowered for this sort of thing. Well the docs do recommend having a render farm ;-) I've just downloaded Kino. It doesn't have anywhere near the power of Cineralla, but looks better as a lightweight editor for those of us with less hardware at our disposal. On the subject of video file formats, does anyone know of a program that will convert .mov to .dat? I've got a bunch of Animatrix movies in Quicktime format that I'd like to make into a VCD (not that I really know how all those obscure files in VCDs work, but getting the .dat file working would be a start). Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Not saving hardware settings
Hey, I recently was reading a thread about menu changes not being saved but I'm afraid that I have a different problem, Mandrake doesn't seem to be saving some of my hardware settings. When I booted into it today, my network didn't work. I had to go into the Control Center and run the wizard again, and then everything was fine. Then my sound didn't work again. When trying to get into harddrake to fix this, I kept getting an error that the program was quitting unexpectedly every time I started it. I fixed this by logging into KDE as root (bad, I know) and then harddrake worked and I was able to get the sound working. Next, I logged back in as my regular user and all was good. It'd be nice if I did not have to repeat this process every time I boot into Linux. How do I get it to save my settings? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Leadtek TV 2000XP Deluxe
Hello again, First off, thanks for helping me get my sound to work! Next, I am trying to get my TV tuner, a Leadtek 2000XP Deluxe to work. I have XawTV installed and at some point Mandrake asked me about the card but now in Xaw I get nothing. According to http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=154, I need to recompile the kernel with Video4Linux and Bttv. Because on install Mandrake saw the card does that mean that these things are already in there? Otherwise, what do I do? Thanks again. --Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to install a Epson C80 Inkjet Printer
Title: RE: [newbie] How to install a Epson C80 Inkjet Printer See if this helps http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C80 -Original Message- From: Scott Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 5:17 PM To: Linux Mailing List Subject: [newbie] How to install a Epson C80 Inkjet Printer Does anyone have any idea how I can get my Epson Inkjet C80 working on Linux? If so then please send me some instructions.
[newbie] Installation help with partitioning
Hello, I am really new to Linux and I have a couple questions regarding the partitioning section of the install (I read the quick start manual and it didn't help.) First off I am running on Windows 2000 Pro on one hard drive and my second hard drive is what I want to run Mandrake 9.2 on. My question is what file system should I use and what should I set my size at for the partition (I have a 40GB hard drive) and what is the swap all about. It prompted me to set up a swap??? I would have gone through the wizard but there is no option. If you can help please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for all your help! Matt
[newbie] Password Expiration
Is there anyway to do this from the CLI. I do not have Xwindows or anything installed nor do I plan on installing it. Thanks! --- MandrakeControlCentreSecurityDrakSecSystemOptionsPasswordexpiration= MandrakeControlCentreSecurityDrakSecSystemOptions99 derek I am running my Mandrake 9.1 in msec level 4. I want to keep it in level 4 because I love all of the other security features. But how do I prevent password expiration system wide without changing msec levels? Thanks!
RE: [newbie] Password Expiration
Is there any way to do it thought CLI? This machine has no working GUI and I don't ever care to get it to work. Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Password Expiration On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 2:19 pm, Matt Winer wrote: I am running my Mandrake 9.1 in msec level 4. I want to keep it in level 4 because I love all of the other security features. But how do I prevent password expiration system wide without changing msec levels? Thanks! MandrakeControlCentreSecurityDrakSecSystemOptionsPasswordexpiration= 99 derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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[newbie] X Font Server Problem
Is what my problem is that I have somehow lost my fixed font in my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc folder which is preventing x from starting. Does anyone know where to get this font? I cannot find it anywhere. Matt Mahoney Web Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ems-i.com 801-302-1400 Phone 801-302-1160 Fax Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem Question
Hi All, Just a quick question on my modem for my laptop. It is detected by Mandrake (I'm using 9.0) as PCTEL 2304 WT V.92 MDC Modem. When my computer boots into Linux, I get a message saying that Device at 0:1f:6 is unavailable due to resource confliction and looking at my hardware list in the control center that device would be my integrated modem. I was wondering what, if anything, I have to do to resolve this confliction and if this modem is supported by Linux at all. Any help is appreciated, even if nothing can be done. Thanks in advance. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames
* Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-11-2003 23:55]: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:22:43 -0800 You don't have to use the ls command, this will work for files with spaces in the name and also accounts for differing case: for image in /path/to/directory/*.[Jj][Pp][Gg] do FCNT=`printf %02d $CNT` echo $image $FCNT-$NAME$EXT CNT=$(($CNT+1)) done Now the problem becomes mv. When specifying a name that contains a space, mv interprets it as multiple files as well. A backslash needs to be added somehow so that mv knows it's a single file. ab\ cd.jpg == 01-pic.jpg -- Regards, Matt Florido Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames
* Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-12-2003 12:58]: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:26:13 -0800 Are you using bash or another shell? On my system (using bash) it works fine. Be sure you leave the quotes around $image. Hi Todd, I am using bash. You're correct. For some reason, I removed the quotes when I add mv. mv $image test/$FCNT-$NAME$EXT changed it to: mv $image test/$FCNT-$NAME$EXT and now all is well!! Thanks again! -- Regards, Matt Florido Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Script to change multiple filenames
I was wondering if someone could assist me in creating a shell script that will take the contents of a directory and rename them a certain way. For example - 4 files in a directory: a.jpg ab.jpg abc.jpg abcd.jpg Renamed as: 1-pic.jpg 2-pic.jpg 3-pic.jpg 4-pic.jpg So it takes the contents of the directory regardless of the current filename, and renames them in an incrementing format. ((N+1) + -something.jpg) -- Regards, Matt Florido Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing WINE
Hello all, i'm a user of mandrake linux since 7 hours ago and i am having some troubles installing wine. i got this off the web elsewhere: first, untar the file: tar -xf wine.tar second, go to the directory it untarred: cd wine third, run the configure script: ./configure fourth, run the compiling script: make fifth, run the installing script: make install that should be all you have to do, unless you want to install to a different directory than the default. Problem is, i have no idea how to do that. Thanks in advance for any replies, matt _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System Integrity
This may be a big newbie question, but when I have to, on the rare occasion (like with Tux Racer), shut down my system due to lockup. I always have it run the system integrity check, but my question is, when it tells me that my system is (Insert % here) noncontiguous, how do I make it contiguous again? Thanks. Matt Harrison Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wireless
Hey all, I have a MicronPC TransPort GX3 Laptop with a built in wireless network card and a regular network card. The wireless is setup as eth0 and the other is eth1. I work in many different buildings and so far I have been unable to gain internet access with the wireless card. It appears the only thing it is able to do is grab an IP address. Is there more I need to configure with it, because I didn't see anything else about it. Could the fact it shows up in the Unknown hardware list be the problem. I don't recall the make of it offhand, but on the website it said it was linux compatable. It looks like harddrake is detecting it as a Lucent Technologies WaveLan/IEEE Adaptor runing the wvlan_cd module. Any help would be appreciated. Matt Harrison MMNet Technology Support Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cloning Stuff
Hi all, I am just curious as to the existance of PC deployment software that will run in Linux such as ImageCast of Ghost. I am looking to convert my workstation to 100% linux based but I need to be able to clone windows machines (yes I know it would be easier to switch them to linux, but that is not my call to make) and my research has found nothing. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] JPilot
I am having problems syncing my Palm Pilot via JPilot. I am using a Toshiba Satellite 1800-S204 and the cradle is plugged in to the serial port in the back. Under windows, this port is Com1I setup JPilot to use this port but still no sync. Am I missing something? -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] JPilot
On Monday 18 November 2002 03:44 pm, Bill Spatz wrote: On Monday 18 November 2002 13:32, Matt Harrison wrote: I am having problems syncing my Palm Pilot via JPilot. I am using a Toshiba Satellite 1800-S204 and the cradle is plugged in to the serial port in the back. Under windows, this port is Com1I setup JPilot to use this port but still no sync. Am I missing something? -Matt Are you set up to use ttyS0 or ttyS1, the equivalent to com1 is ttyS0. Mine works flawlessly. Bill I have Jpilot setup to access the cradle through ttyS0, but it still is not working. I guess I will try the other com ports and see if I can get it to work. I guess my question now would be, could it not be working due to the PC Card modem using ttyS1? -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] JPilot
On Monday 18 November 2002 03:44 pm, Bill Spatz wrote: On Monday 18 November 2002 13:32, Matt Harrison wrote: I am having problems syncing my Palm Pilot via JPilot. I am using a Toshiba Satellite 1800-S204 and the cradle is plugged in to the serial port in the back. Under windows, this port is Com1I setup JPilot to use this port but still no sync. Am I missing something? -Matt Are you set up to use ttyS0 or ttyS1, the equivalent to com1 is ttyS0. Mine works flawlessly. Bill Nevermind, I had to run it as ROOT in order to get it to work. Seems odd to me, but oh well, it works now. Thanks. -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TAR problems
I've been having some problems running tar. I type something like tar -x foo.tar and it just hangs there for a long time. I've tried using -x -v and -t, but it still hangs indefinitely, doing nothing. Anyone have any suggestions? Matt Dalen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Access to win partitions
I posted yesterday about changing access rights to my windows partitions but i'm not sure it came up as i never actually received it! anyway, since reinstalling 8.2 i cannot get write permissions to my windows hard drives where basically all my documents that i need are stored etc. The 1st time i installed 8.2 i didn't have to do anything to get both read/write access to my windows drives so i can't work out how to get it now. I tried changing permissions using chmod a+w win_c but that doesn't give me write permissions, so either something is up or i'm using the wrong commands - probably the latter!! Can anyone help me as this is a real pain as i've just got most things working in Linux and was about to change Linux to my default o/s. Also does anybody else have any problems with Open Office.org 1.0 crashing loads under Ximian-Gnome? Cheers Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Access to win partitions
Ok so now i have edited the fstab file but when i do 'mount -a' i get told line 7 and 8 in the fstab are bad. Line 7 and 8 are about my 2 windows partitions and looks like this: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,umask=0,defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,umask=0,defaults 0 0 Can anybody tell me why i get this message and what i need to do sort it out so i can read/write to both my windows partitions. Thanks again Matt On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 14:15, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:31 am, Manuel Soto wrote: I the same problem w/ 8.1 and rw partitions /dev/hda1 on /mnt/win_c type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850) /dev/hdc1 on /mnt/win_c2 type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850) Add 'user' and 'umask= 0' to /etc/fstab, eg, (mine) /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,umask=0,defaults 0 0 [FWIW, /mnt is a lousy place for win partitions. I always move /mnt/win_c to a dir I create called simply /c ] Then, after a 'mount -a' (as root), type 'mount' and you should see /dev/hda1 on /c type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0) -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Handspring Visor
How do i get mt Handspring Visor working in 8.2 and Ximian Gnome - it is on a USB port. First of all, am i correct to do a symbolic link from /dev/pilot to /dev/usb ? Secondly if i try and sync by saying i have used other syncing software with the pda before - which i have in windows it cannot find a connection. How can i make it find a connection using the settings i had on windows and therefore transferring all my data straight over to linux? Or do i need to completely reinstall everything on my PDA to get it to work in 8.2/ I also posted the other day about how to inport my Ms Outlook .pst settings and Outlook Express address book - any ideas from anybody how i can do this? Thanks Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange problem with the mouse/screen
Thanks for that Kaj, it's been bugging me for ages - and i do indeed have a Trident Cyberblade. cheers Matt On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 00:49, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 01:05 am, Matt Blake wrote: Every now and again using any windows manager - mainly gnome or kde, i get a strange problem with the mouse - it is as if the area the mouse can move in shifts 2cm to the right but the actual screen stays in the same place. So for example when i want to click on the gnome icon to go into the main menu i have to click the mouse about 2cm to the right of the actual icon. The only way to stop it is a complete reboot - which is obviously pretty annoying! For various reasons i reinstalled mandrake 8.2 and the problem is the same. Does anybody have any idea why this is happening or how i can solve it? thanks for any help Matt Matt, this is a bug in some Trident chipsets, especially cyberblades. The solution is surprisingly simple : pass the option sw_cursor to the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 To do that, open a console and become root. Now, fire up a text-editor of your choice, for example type : mcedit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (without the quotes, of course). Scroll down the file until you find *Section Device*. A few stanzas down that section, remove the hash-mark (#) in front of *Option sw_cursor*. Save the file, un-root yourself and restart the X-server (or logout and in again). Done. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Importing address book and outlook pst settings
Now that my linux system is up and running properly and i'm happy with how everything works i want to use evolution instead of ms outlook for my calendar/tasks/mail etc. How can i install my outlook .pst files into evolution? Also how can i import my address book from outlook express - i have got the mail by importing it into mozilla and then to evolution - there's probably a simpler way but i couldn't find it. Cheers for any help offered Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Instant Messengers
Does anybody know which (if any) instant messengers are compatible with MSM Messenger on Linux? Seeing as most people still use windows, it would be useful to have something that is. cheers Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Instant Messengers
Thanks for those answers - have just picked up CCMSM and am just getting everybuddy - so i'll give them a go. Cheers. Another question: For downloading in windows i was using Get Right which was able to queue up and pause downloads etc and would reconnect automatically when my ISP cuts me off after 2 hours - is there anything similar that is available for linux? Thanks again! Matt On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 21:22, Mark Evans wrote: On Friday 31 May 2002 12:37 am, you wrote: Does anybody know which (if any) instant messengers are compatible with MSM Messenger on Linux? Seeing as most people still use windows, it would be useful to have something that is. cheers Matt Hi Matt I use Gaim for MSN. One thing about Gaim that I found, was that others arn't aware you are on-line Mark Evans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Soundcard freezes mouse
I posted a while ago about my sound card and followed the sueegestions i was givenand i got sound... until i rebooted at which point loading the sound failed and I got a message about my mouse device busy and once X loaded the mouse was just frozen in the middle of the screen. So i have now restored /etc/modules.conf back to how it was and all is ok again well except i still have no sound. Any more ideas as to what i can do? Cheers On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:24:38 GMT Matt Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just installed 8.2 but am generally new to Linux having only used Redmond Linux before. During setup my soundcard wasn't configured properly and the setup told me to run sndconfig later on. So i did that and the ISAPNP Probe Results found my sound card: Model: Crystal Codec:GAME The first sound card test was ok and i heard the sample sound fine. But when it did the second sound card test for the MIDI sample it returned: modprobe error The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz: init_module: No such device Well, the opl3 device was not found by the opl3 module ;) modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod synth0 failed Yes, it's about a FM synthesizer for MIDI. But Timidity (on your CD's) can play MIDI just fine (in fact the sound quality of the opl3 based MIDI synthesizer is rather bad AFAIK). It offered me the chance to do all the setting manually, but i don't know what they are. So my questions are: what does the above error mean and if i have to set it up manually then how do i find all the settings for it? 'cat /proc/isapnp' _may_ give you some ideas. It's possible sndconfig made a mistake and shouldn't have tried to load the opl3 module Also, the strange thing is that for the rest of the session after i have run this, the sound card works fine, so i know it works ok, but then i have to run sndconfig again next time i log in, which is quite often at the moment as my modem is not supported yet, but thats another story!! You can check with '/sbin/lsmod' which modules (drivers) are loaded. Let us know. I think sndconfig loaded a driver for your card, then tried to load the opl3 module which failed. Because of that sndconfig didn't add the necessary lines to the /etc/modules.conf file. Cheers in advance and thanks to all the mandrake people for a cool distro Matt HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3
I have followed the instructions from alastair to install KDE3 in 8.2 and all goes fine, but it doesn't appear in the drop down list when i log out and try to log back in. KDE is in the menu but it simply loads KDE2 has before. Any ideas would be appreciated Cheers Matt Original Message On 21/04/02, 21:50:06, Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] KDE 3: On Sunday 21 Apr 2002 8:23 pm, Jesse Angell wrote: Is KDE3 included in mandrake 8.2.. If not, how hard is it to upgrade it.. It's not. But it turns out to be straightforward to upgrade thanks to a little bit of magic from Mandrake (the urpmi command): i. Go to a download location for the Mandrake packages via: http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0/Mandrake/ then the 8.2/RPMS/i586 directory on the server you're automatically directed to. ii. Download _every_ package there - I think there are currently thirty-four of them - to a directory. Don't pick and choose the packages; the next step may not work if you do so. iii. Go to a shell, log in as root (su then root password) then do: cd the folder you downloaded everything to urpmi.addmedia kde3 file://full pathname of that folder [1] urpmi * And, after about 10 minutes, KDE3 will be installed. Log out of KDE2 (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) and log back in again, picking 'KDE3' from the drop-down list of window managers on the login screen. That's all. Alastair [1] for example, I put the files in /home/alastair/kde3 so the commands would be cd /home/alastair/kde3 urpmi.addmedia kde3 file:///home/alastair/kde3 -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
Cheers Brian, that's sorted. I now want to upgrade to KDE3. Can i keep KDE 2 though at the same time as it seems like there's still a few bugs, or will it overwirte KDE2 when i insatll it? Cheers everyone Matt Original Message On 22/04/02, 00:38:16, Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Updates: Matt, I assume you are dual booting, so the easiest way is to download to a fat32 partition the RPM's. Now boot linux, and find /mnt/windows or whatever the fat32 partition is mounted as. From there (as root) you can: rpm -Uvh rpm-file-name for updates. Don't do that for a new kernel though! For that it's: rpm -ivh kernelx HTH Brian On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 09:26, Matt Blake wrote: I want to download the updates for 8.2, but due to a winmodem need to do it through windows. Is it better to download the RPM's or SRPM's? How do i then install the updates? Cheers Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Updates
I want to download the updates for 8.2, but due to a winmodem need to do it through windows. Is it better to download the RPM's or SRPM's? How do i then install the updates? Cheers Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card problems
Frans, Ok, so i have done all the things you suggested, but to be honest i'm not to sure what i'm looking for in the 'cat /proc/isapnp'. I'll put it at the bottom of this message so if some kind person decided to help me out you can see it but everybody else can ignore thee long post! The '/sbin/lsmod'shows: Module Size Used by Not tainted isofs 25792 1 (autoclean) inflate_fs 19328 0 (autoclean) [isofs] sg 30180 0 (autoclean) (unused) st 27316 0 (autoclean) (unused) sr_mod 15160 0 (autoclean) (unused) sd_mod 11644 0 (autoclean) (unused) scsi_mod 92488 4 (autoclean) [sg st sr_mod sd_mod] autofs4 9252 2 (autoclean) ad1848 21408 0 sound 57292 0 [ad1848] soundcore 4068 2 [sound] nfsd 69536 8 (autoclean) lockd 49344 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 62964 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] lp 6464 0 parport_pc 22088 1 parport 23968 1 [lp parport_pc] af_packet 12488 0 (autoclean) ipchains 35816 0 usb-uhci 21668 0 (unused) usbcore 59072 1 [usb-uhci] nls_iso8859-15 3360 3 (autoclean) nls_cp850 3584 2 (autoclean) vfat 9788 2 (autoclean) fat 31384 0 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 62180 2 (autoclean) tuner 8612 1 (autoclean) tvaudio 10080 0 (autoclean) (unused) bttv 59776 0 i2c-algo-bit 7244 1 [bttv] i2c-core 13568 0 [tuner tvaudio bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev 4896 2 [bttv] rtc 5912 0 (autoclean) ext3 62092 2 jbd 39356 2 [ext3] The /etc/modules.conf file shows: alias autofs autofs4 alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-2 ad1848 alias char-major-81 bttv alias /dev/ttyHCF* hcfserial alias char-major-240 hcfserial alias /dev/ttyCUA* hcfserial alias char-major-241 hcfserial alias /dev/modem hcfserial options hcfserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241 pcivendorid=0x14F1 pcideviceid=0x1035 Ok, so sorry this is so long, but if anyone can help this newbie, i'll be very greatful and can move further away from uncle bill!! Cheers again Matt cat /proc/isapnp Card 1 'CSC4236:Crystal Codec' PnP version 1.0 Product version 0.5 Logical device 0 'CSC:WSS/SB' Device is not active Active port 0x534,0x388,0x220 Active IRQ 7 [0x2] Active DMA 1,3 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x534-0x534, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x220-0x220, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5 High-Edge DMA 1 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 0,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x534-0xffc, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x220-0x260, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,11,12,15 High-Edge DMA 1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Alternate resources 0:2 Priority functional Port 0x534-0xffc, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x220-0x300, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,11,12,15 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Logical device 1 'CSC0001:GAME' Device is active Active port 0x200 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x200-0x200, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x208-0x208, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Logical device 2 'CSC0010:CTRL' Device is not active Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x120-0xff8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Logical device 3 'CSC0003:MPU' Device is active Active port 0x330 Active IRQ 9 [0x2] Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x330-0x330, align 0x7, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 2/9 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x330-0x360, align 0x7, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 2/9,11,12,15 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:2 Priority functional Port 0x330-0x3e0, align 0x7, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Original Message On 13/04/02, 16:12:24, Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Sound card problems: On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:24:38 GMT Matt Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just installed 8.2 but am generally new to Linux having only used Redmond Linux before. During setup my soundcard wasn't configured properly and the setup told me to run sndconfig later on. So i did that and the ISAPNP Probe Results found my sound card: Model: Crystal Codec:GAME The first sound card test was ok and i heard the sample sound fine. But when it did the second sound card test for the MIDI sample it returned: modprobe error The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz: init_module: No such device Well, the opl3 device was not found by the opl3 module ;) modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod synth0 failed Yes, it's about a FM synthesizer for MIDI. But Timidity (on your CD's) can play MIDI just fine (in fact
[newbie] Sound card problems
Hi, I've just installed 8.2 but am generally new to Linux having only used Redmond Linux before. During setup my soundcard wasn't configured properly and the setup told me to run sndconfig later on. So i did that and the ISAPNP Probe Results found my sound card: Model: Crystal Codec:GAME The first sound card test was ok and i heard the sample sound fine. But when it did the second sound card test for the MIDI sample it returned: modprobe error The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz: init_module: No such device modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod synth0 failed It offered me the chance to do all the setting manually, but i don't know what they are. So my questions are: what does the above error mean and if i have to set it up manually then how do i find all the settings for it? Also, the strange thing is that for the rest of the session after i have run this, the sound card works fine, so i know it works ok, but then i have to run sndconfig again next time i log in, which is quite often at the moment as my modem is not supported yet, but thats another story!! Cheers in advance and thanks to all the mandrake people for a cool distro Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Network install without floppies or CDROMS
I have a laptop motherboard with a 2.1gig HDD and a PCMCIA NIC and Lucent WaveLan Silver running Redhat 7.0. The problem I have is that I'm wanting to install Mandrake 8.1 on the machine, but it has no CDROM or Floppy drive, so I'd like to use the PCMCIA NIC and a NFS or FTP instance of the install disks on another box, but I've not had much luck finding any info on the net which doesn't require floppies for a network install. The theory I have is if I copy an install image over to the machine and point lilo to the image, when asked for the source of the install media I would specify FTP/NFS, but I don't know the exact process of going about this and which images should be used etc. The NIC is set up and functioning, the whole thing is running, I just want to install a different distro on it, I'm sure there's a way, but I cannot figure it out as yet. Thanks in advance, -Matt. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 and MandrakeUpdate
I asked this before and got an answer, but now I need an answer for the answer. When I tell Software Manager to update the list of mirrors, it closes SMSomeone (sorry I can't remember who) told me to use the Cooker address. Well, if at all possible, could someone please give me an address to put in for my Internet Source in SM. Thanks. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] less
rpm --erase less rpm -i less-358-14mdk.rpm -Original Message- From: Bo Rosén [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] less tor 2002-01-24 klockan 20.41 skrev Randy Kramer: Have you looked to see if there is an alias for less? Yes, and if I understand things correctly it shouldn't affect both root and normal users as /home hasn't changed from my previous distribution while /root is new. Unless mandrake overwrites the old .bashrc and .bash_rofile? My problem does affect both. It's not a major problem, obviously but it is annoying as I use less quite a bit. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP trouble with Comcast.net
On Monday 21 January 2002 03:30 pm, you wrote: Previous to the recent switchover from @Home's network to Comcast's own network, I assigned my firewall machine a static IP address and everything worked fine. However, now I've got to use DHCP to lease a dynamically assigned address from the network. I can't get this to work. I keep getting back the message timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response. My DHCP client is dhcpcd. I live in Howard county, in the Baltimore, MD area. I've tried this using both Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1. Has anyone had success getting this to work? Setting a static IP probably won't work once they are fully converted, but I find that sometimes my original setup works and other times I have to use the command line to activate dhcpcd and get connected. Try 'man dhcpcd' and see if that helps. --matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Gnome Theme Selector?
What desktop are you using? KDE or Gnome maybe? I am running Gnome right now, and if you click on the toolbox on the taskbar which is Gnome configuration tool, choose themes from the selections you can choose a different one, or none at all. I don't know about any other desktops so sorry I cant be of more help. matt -Original Message- From: Nelson Bartley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Gnome Theme Selector? Heyo, When I installed LM and updated it, I chose a theme through the first time wizard. Well, I really don't like it now, however I cannot find a way to change it. I'm using the latest cooker (20/02), and the new control center isn't of much help. NB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Terminal syntax??? to a floppy directly from wordstar?
Try using the entire path to the file i.e. /home/user/filename? -Original Message- From: Thomas Wildeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Terminal syntax??? to a floppy directly from wordstar? Hello, I couldn't find a terminal icon in starword. But i can find one on the tool bar, so I used it to type in: /mnt/floppy/Note to Luke1.doc Yet I got an error saying the directory or file doesn't exist. What did I do incorrectly? i can see clearly using the file browser that it is existing. Btw is there a direct way of accessing this terminal in starword? Thanks for any help, Thmswldmn From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Now HOW can I access the save area? to a floppy directly from wordstar? Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:58:15 -0600 On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:26 pm, you wrote: Hello, Thanks for the help and the replies. This just shows how ignorant I am. What do I have to do to access or write in the words: /mnt/floppy/name of file ? I apologize for asking such a basic thing ahead of time. Respectfully, thmswldmn don't worry about it, as long as it looks like you're interested in learning, someone will always answer. They mean type it in at a terminal, kinda similar in appearance to the dos prompt in windows. Usually by default there is a little icon that looks a little like a little monitor screen in your panel, that's the link to a terminal/console. In there you will find a whole new world. :-) -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Basic port 139
Umm, ya well, I wouldn't be askin this on a list but try http://neworder.box.sk -Original Message- From: SKLIM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 7:24 PM To: Linux Newbie Subject: [newbie] Basic port 139 Hi! Everyone know that port 139 is a backdoor for NT . But how to hack in ??? I like to try it. But I can't find the solution at WEB. Did you have the solution how to hack the port 139 .. ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] binding ip and new registered domain based website, have problem
You need to create an address record for the domain. You registered the domain with dotsaway.com, so either have them create a record or if they have a user interface you can do it yourself. Just create a couple 'A' records: 12.34.56.78 A www 12.34.56.78 A linuxspice.com -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] binding ip and new registered domain based website, have problem Dear linux user: about how to binding ip and domain name, I mean I have 12.34.56.78 's static ip, I can see test webpage by type in url as http://12.34.56.78, and I also register a domain name , like linuxspice.com , so I put the server name at apache config file as www.linuxspice.com, the other is default, but I can not see my site(that test page) by http://www.linuxspice.com, should I change /etc/resolv.conf domain centurytel.netto linuxspice.com? need help on this sincere eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE Media Player broken
Hi there, Can anyone give some ideas on troubleshooting this? I've been using KDE Media Player (noatun) steadily since I installed with little to no problems. Of course, I've tweaked some sound server settings to get better playback, but I'm still using the default settings in Media Player. Recently, it's showing some strange behavior. When I start it from the K menu, it looks like it's opening, but never comes up. I can use Konq and select an .ogg file and actually listen to music, but I can't get to my playlist or see the noatun interface. So, Media Player seems to be running in the background, but I can't see anything of it. It even shows up in the list of running processes. So, what can I do here? Thanks, Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building Source RPMs?
On Sunday 09 December 2001 10:38 am, you wrote: OK, I am feeling a bit stupid right now! How do I build a source RPM? I have been trying 'rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm', but I keep getting the message 'package.src.rpm: no such file or directory'. The package *does* exist. I installed it, and the tarball went into /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES, and the spec file went into /usr/src/RPM/SPECS, like I would have expected. The source RPM itself is in /usr/src/RPM, where I copied it before installing it. I am su'd to root. Is this a PATH issue? You dont install the rpm then rebuild, just rebuild. So the package.src.rpm should be in your current directory, then type rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm Alot of text will then scroll by, in that text it will tell you where it saved the newly made rpm. It's something like usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686. Change to that directory, then install the rpm just like any other rpm. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 and cdrom
On Sunday 09 December 2001 12:05 pm, you wrote: This machine doesn't have SCSI support, to the best of my knowledge. Why is Mandrake seeing two RW drives and why is it seeing a SCSI device? This is a very common question, easily found in the archives. The linux burning program, cdrecord, relies on a SCSI cd burner. SCSI emulation is provided for IDE burners so that they can work with cdrecord. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] linux fitness/health programs?
I know this is a super long shot, but does anyone know of any of these? I found one (Diondine) but it was closed source, cost money and wasn't so great. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transgamings Winex question
On Saturday 08 December 2001 12:40 pm, you wrote: i have been wondering, does the winex (or wine for that matter, never even read up on either) require a windows install or dual boot? or just select files from windows, or niether. i would love to play diablo and starcraft and TFC, but i am NOT putting a win partition on here, soo Apparently not. Here is a howto on how to run halflife in Linux via wine, and it says a windows install is not necessary. You can run halflife's installation program from wine itself. http://lhl.linuxgames.com/howto/half-life-HOWTO-0.4.1.html I haven't tried it yet. As halflife, despite its age, is still a full price game :/ Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows connection problem
On Saturday 08 December 2001 02:58 pm, you wrote: When I ping the linux from windows I get an ok message (100% ok, 0% dropped) but when I ping from linux it keeps on pinging forever. Does this mean that only one of my machines is misconfigured, and if this is the case, wich one? That's correct. Unix ping will ping forever unless you stop it. Hit CTRL-C to stop it, and it will then clean up the program for you. Windows ping will ping 3 times and then stop. If I want only one of them to read/write on the other, could I live with this or do I have to fix it? If you want read/write between them, the best solution is probably Samba. Don't get discouraged, getting Samba running can be a pain, it's a complex set of programs. The best crash course on samba I've figured out is to just install the samba rpms then work your way through the diagnosis file, which is online at: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/DIAGNOSIS.html You will fail the later tests, samba doesn't run out of the box unfortunately. But when you do fail, you'll have an idea of what you need to troubleshoot. I've set up samba a few times, and I'm sure others here have as well. So you can always post here with problems. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rescue and copy directories
On Saturday 08 December 2001 04:48 pm, you wrote: When I try a cp /home/bill /mnt/windows I continue to get a 'omitting directory' message and only files in the root of the directory are copied. Is there a way that I can copy the entire directory and maintain the directory structure? by default cp will not copy directories. try cp -r /home/bill /mnt/windows the -r is recursive which is a fancy way of saying it will dive into directories and copy their contents over. Also, I tried to do a cp --help but the messages scrolled off the top of the screenwhat is the command to halt information a page at a time? There's several ways. You can look up cp's man page man cp or you can pipe that help message you got to a program which will let you see it. cp --help | less or cp --help | more whichever you prefer. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vmware in LM 8.1 continues
On Friday 07 December 2001 07:44 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Thank you for your answers and help. I was installing my vmware 2.03 on my LM8.1 and got a complaint about not having the correct module and they needed to know what file my C ++ header files were in. I did not know the answer to that one. Does anyone know what files I need to have installed for these needed C++ header files so that I may run this vmware 2.03? Thank you for the help. Hmm, it should provide a default answer that is correct. For me it is /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/build/include I'm running vmware 2.04, I don't know how different 2.03 is. 2.04 won't successfully compile a vmmon/vmnet module for the stock 8.1 kernel unless you first use a little tarball that fixes this. Otherwise it will try to compile and fail. This might be the case for 2.03 as well. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What's this dependency nonesense all about?
On Saturday 08 December 2001 01:27 am, you wrote: Hi list, Being new, I'm sure I'm going to have lots of questions and stuff I just don't like. However this dependency stuff when installing software in Linux is making me nuts! Take a number and get in line :) Why in Linux does software depend on other software? Why? Why can't each program stand up on it's own two 1's and 0's? Packages depend on other--usually lower level-- packages to save on system resources. If you have a library A and programs B, C and D all need to use it, it makes more sense to have a common A library that all programs can draw on. Having each program compile library A into themselves would result in larger binaries, more memory usage and just generally waste resources. It's possible to compile the library directly into the binary in Linux, but it's rarely done. If a newer version of library A is released, most of the time you can replace the library and B, C and D will immediately benefit from the upgrade. the alternative would require new binaries for all the programs that use A. You are most likely coming from Windows. Windows does things similarly (but not as well, of course :)), they're called DLLs. But a Windows program pretty much always comes with all the DLLs it needs and installs them. Sometimes they may check to see if the DLL is already installed, a lot of times they don't. Sometimes you end up with two different versions of a DLL, which can cause problems. And that brings me to another question. RPMS. I'm not comfortable with the concept of installing just yet, and Lord knows the Kpackage and the like in the distros aren't helping. I have a problem pointing the installer to the source disks. I kinda thought this would be as easy as pointing to a drive letter as in Windows. You mean rpmdrake? What error messages are you getting? What exactly is happening? rpmdrake should have the three 8.1 cds as sources by default. Why do I get the feeling someone is about to point out to me that I should have read a RPMS HOW-TO. rpms really aren't that bad. The dependency thing is a common thing for beginners to get stuck on. I was tearing my hair out on this not too long ago. Using a program like rpmdrake or urpmi can lessen the blow of that. After a while you'll get a feel for when you can force an rpm to install despite dependancy problems. rpms become second nature really fast, I promise :) If you ever need rpms that aren't on the cds, www.rpmfind.net is your best bet. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network question....I think.
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:57 am, you wrote: Hello again, Okay, I'm new to the Linux world but want to become dangerous. I am also new to the world of Networking, but I'm still building my courage in that field! I have a dual boot system up and running with Win'98 and LM 8.1. On the Win'98 side I have my machine networked with two D-Link DFE-530TX+ cards with the wifes machine across the other side of the room. She has Win'98 installed also. I have the printer connected to her machine, and we have Internet Connection Sharing setup also. I want to be able to print to the printer, access her computer, and share the Internet connection from inside Linux Mandrake 8.1 here on my machine. Can this be done? Someone told me to go buy a big book on Samba! I told him to go stick it, real men don't dance! Where do I start??? Your computer has two NICs? One for the internet and one that's going over to your wife? Setting up NAT (network address translation. Otherwise known as internet connection sharing) with Mandrake is very easy. There appears to be a bug in 8.1 that complicates this just a tad. For me I had to remove my NIC that is feeding my internal network, and set up my internet connection with the other NIC. You may or may not have to do this. Once the net connection is going, I replaced the NIC I removed (removed and replace it with the computer off of course). Run harddrake (mandrake control center - hardware - hardware) and confirm the second NIC has been recognized. Now, still in the Mandrake control center, go over to network - connection sharing. It should tell you it is about to set up connection sharing on eth1 (the second NIC). Just follow the wizard, you will probably need to install some stuff off of your mandrake cds. It will then set it up so other computers can access your internet connection via dhcp. On your wife's computer go to control panel - network. Find the TCP/IP entry for her network card and select properties, then IP address tab. Now select obtain IP address automatically, reboot her computer. She should be up and running sharing the net with you. This is by far the easiest way to do it. But the mandrake wizard does it via dhcp and I didn't like having both the dhcp daemon and the dns daemon (named) running on my machine. They took more resources than I liked. I also thought dynamic addresses would complicate other aspects of my network needlessly. So I redid it with static IP addresses, eliminating dhcp. Also, it's really ideal to have a third computer be your network's gateway. It can run NAT, the firewall, the local name server, samba, etc and do just that, taking the burden off your computer. That's how I will do it once I find another computer to use. But for now, one step at a time. Get this far and you'll be doing well. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Network question....I think.
On Thursday 06 December 2001 05:08 am, you wrote: Hello Matt, Just noticed your answer to this post, and was wondering if you could help me sort out a problem. I've finally got dhcp, samba, bastille and nat(sharing dialup connection) working on lm80, but just don't understand how to set up dns on a local network. I have run all the tests on samba, and everything works ok except that I can ping by name from linux to win98 but only by ip from win98 to linux. this appears to point to incorrect dns settings but I have no idea where to start. btw, I need to use dhcp so my laptop can be used at home and work. All I know about named is using it as a caching dns. My internal network asks named for dns resolution, named asks my ISP's dns for the info, and then keeps a copy of it internally so it can serve it up itself next time the information is needed. If you have a small private network, hosts files are probably a better solution. In the file /etc/hosts, add in the IP address then the host name for each computer on your network. Then in Windows, do the same with C:\windows\hosts (win9x), or c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (winNT, 2000). Check this out for a good explanation: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-iface.simple-resolv.html Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SPAM FILTER
I am a new sysadmin for my ISP.. we have a horrible spam problem here, and no one has done anything in the past to resolve it. I have decent linux experience, but i wouldnt exactly call myself a pro.. :) i have been looking into blackmail, but it seems very difficult to install. I was wondering if anyone out there knew of an AWESOME spam filter, that can be used system-wide (for ISP use) and is EASY to install and administer.. can anyone please help me?!?!? :) THANKS! - Matt
Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER
From: Matt Koppelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a new sysadmin for my ISP.. we have a horrible spam problem here, and no one has done anything in the past to resolve it. I have decent linux experience, but i wouldnt exactly call myself a pro.. :) i have been looking into blackmail, but it seems very difficult to install. I was wondering if anyone out there knew of an AWESOME spam filter, that can be used system-wide (for ISP use) and is EASY to install and administer.. can anyone please help me?!?!? :) Give procmail a try. I'm about to set it up for my network as well. I don't actually have it running yet, but I've seen nothing but positive things about it. http://www.procmail.org/ Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER
i dunno.. i dont have THAT much experience.. i've heard procmail is a nightmare to install, i'm looking for something quick, and easy.. - Original Message - From: Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER From: Matt Koppelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a new sysadmin for my ISP.. we have a horrible spam problem here, and no one has done anything in the past to resolve it. I have decent linux experience, but i wouldnt exactly call myself a pro.. :) i have been looking into blackmail, but it seems very difficult to install. I was wondering if anyone out there knew of an AWESOME spam filter, that can be used system-wide (for ISP use) and is EASY to install and administer.. can anyone please help me?!?!? :) Give procmail a try. I'm about to set it up for my network as well. I don't actually have it running yet, but I've seen nothing but positive things about it. http://www.procmail.org/ Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Realtek 8139 and internet
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 08:04 am, you wrote: Greeting from Poland Linuxmen ! I'm green. Can anyone tell me where to write my ip, mask, dns numbers to connect to internet ? Which file, or maybe your example. If you're in X, load up the mandrake control center. Then Network-Connection-configure. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations
I think my KDE has a memory leak, although I've not been able to find any info on the possibility at kde.org. When I first turn on the computer, KDE is using about 80MB, just now it was using 250MB (ouch!). I got those two numbers from gtop. The memory usage builds up slowly over time. I just shutdown kde and looked at my memory with top, and despite all the kde processes being gone the memory usage didn't drop by much at all. At runlevel 3 with X/kde shutdown, and nothing but top being ran by me directly, I had about 70MB free of my 384MB of memory. That just doesn't sound right. I thought I left memory fragmenting behind with the Macintosh :) Now, coming back into kde, kde is using about 150MB. A big improvement over 250MB, but still more than it seems like it should be using. I am using kde 2.2.1. I had 2.2.2 briefly installed and noted it did the same thing. Searching the net doesn't turn up much. It seems people think Linux handles memory ok :) I think I will start using gnome or iceWM for a while and see if I notice the same thing happening. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache public_html help needed
On Sunday 02 December 2001 09:54 pm, you wrote: I know I had set this up right on a different CPU, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. For some reason I can't get my ~dherndon43/ directory to work. I'm getting a: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~dherndon43/test.php on this server. Where are the apache permissions placed? Here;s a snippet from the apache faq, it might help. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#forbidden -- Why do I get a Forbidden message whenever I try to access a particular directory? This message is generally caused because either The underlying file system permissions do not allow the User/Group under which Apache is running to access the necessary files; or The Apache configuration has some access restrictions in place which forbid access to the files. You can determine which case applies to your situation by checking the error log. In the case where file system permission are at fault, remember that not only must the directory and files in question be readable, but also all parent directories must be at least searchable by the web server in order for the content to be accessible. --- Why do I get a Forbidden/You don't have permission to access / on this server message whenever I try to access my server? Search your conf/httpd.conf file for this exact string: Files ~. If you find it, that's your problem -- that particular Files container is malformed. Delete it or replace it with Files ~ ^\.ht and restart your server and things should work as expected. This error appears to be caused by a problem with the version of linuxconf distributed with Redhat 6.x. It may reappear if you use linuxconf again. If you don't find this string, check out the previous question. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations
On Monday 03 December 2001 03:08 am, you wrote: I just shutdown kde and looked at my memory with top, and despite all the kde processes being gone the memory usage didn't drop by much at all. At runlevel 3 with X/kde shutdown, and nothing but top being ran by me directly, I had about 70MB free of my 384MB of memory. That just doesn't sound right. I thought I left memory fragmenting behind with the Macintosh :) Well I got one answer to this. Linux purposely grabs free memory to use for disk write caching and the like. So the fact that my memory is nearly full despite most everything being shutdown is not really a concern. I'm still curious about KDE, though. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations
On Monday 03 December 2001 12:17 pm, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a memory leak (this ain't your win 95 box) I don't think there is anything inherent in Linux which will prevent memory leaks -- it comes down to care and testing by the programmer. AFAIK, memory leaks can be created anywhere C or C++ are used (and probably many other languages). Yup, I just tested that. Linux does not appear to make any attempt to stop memory leaks. I wrote a quick program with an infinite loop that dynamically allocated some memory. Watching top, its memory usage climbed dramatically. There's really no way for Linux to know if I really am using that memory or not, so I don't see how it could interfere. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:29 pm, you wrote:
Well, I'm new to linux here, and finally settled with Mandrake after
trying many different ones. However, I seem to have gotten stuck on my
cable modem configuration. I have att@home and should be using dhcp to
obtain my ip address. Basically what happens after I stop and restart
the netowrk is getting the IP address fails. Any help with this would be
much appreciated.
@home gave you an ID number. It's in the form of Cxxx-A. In windows
this is the name of your computer (control panel - network - identity
tab).
In linux, set that as your host name, use dhcp, and your cable modem should
fire right up.
The easiest way to set the host name is to go into mandrake control center,
then network-connection-configure.
the only downside is your bash prompt will be [user@cxxx-a user]$,
although there's surely ways to change that.
There's a still easier way to specify this.
Travel to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
Edit your ifcfg-eth0 file to include (at the top) the line
DHCP_HOSTNAME=cx{your details here]-a
This worked fine for me, and avoids the silly hostname prompt.
--mapdock
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Re: [newbie] fill in the blank.directory question...
For what it's worth this problem is addressed in KDE 2.2.2. It's part of the bug fixes listed at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog2_2_1to2_2_2.html Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde 2.2.2 slooooow
I just upgraded from kde 2.2.1 to 2.2.2. The install went very smoothly. I downloaded the mandrake i586 rpms from kde's ftp site. I only had two failed dependencies which I fixed, and then did rpm -Uvh *.rpm from the directory they were in (kde was not running at the time) and away it went. When I returned to kde I found it to be really slow. Kmail isn't so bad, and non webbrowsing konqueror is ok, but kdevelop and web browsing konqueror are incredibly slow. Kdevelop takes a good 5 minutes to shut down, and about a minute to do anything (say switch to a different document). Generally speaking any k apps are slower than they used to be. I'll be reinstalling Mandrake 8.1 tonight, as that's the only way I know of to go back to 2.2.1 and be sure of no problems. But if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. Fortunately I backed up everything before attempting 2.2.2. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xine - no sound
On Friday 30 November 2001 09:52 am, you wrote: I compiled the .mdk package of xine 0.9.6 to play .asf files. However, it keeps saying that the audiodriver (null) failed. Maybe that package did not include any audio driver? http://skyblade.homeip.net/xine/XINE-0.9.6/i686.RPMs/ This page has rpms for xine, including the sound drivers for various types of linux sound architectures. I originally had no sound with xine. I just installed all the sound rpms and now my xine has sound. No conflicts or anything. Perhaps a bit brute force, but it worked. Those are i686 rpms, if you have something else, go up a directory. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate
Yikes. I just installed tuxracer --my first attempt at 3D gaming in Linux-- and the framerate is 1 frame per second at best. It's more like watching a slide show than playing a game. This seems to be a somewhat common problem? But I haven't found any solutions. My computer should be able to handle tuxracer. My video card is just a 16MB Nvidia TNT2 M64, but even with software rendering my 1.1 ghz Athlon should be able to get, say, 5 fps? :) As far as OpenGL goes I have the mandrake Mesa-Common and Mesa rpms installed. Running the gears Mesa demo gave me 250fps, which maybe suggests a tuxracer problem and not mesa? Any ideas? I usually just play 2D games, which are fine in Linux. But I wasn't expecting performance like this. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: tuxracer: FIXED
Never mind, I figured it out. Installing the nvidia drivers did wonders. I'm pretty ignorant on 3D acceleration and computer gaming in general. My gears demo framerate jumped from 250 to 800, so I guess it wasn't running very well either. Oh well, time to race! :) Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 05:27 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 15:06, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I had this trouble some time ago as well (can't remember what version of Bastille, and iptables I was running). I any case, I was advised, that to get rid of that message, i can get rid of linuxconf from the list of services that Bastille audits. I don't know much about the issue, and can't find the message in the archives. But I think the point was, unless you are concerned with someone with physical access to the system making changes via linuxconf, you don't need linuxconf auditing. -Paul Rodríguez Do you think the full security configuration I chose was applied, or does Bastille abort when it strikes the 'linuxconf' trouble ? Do I need to run InteractiveBastille again ? An easy way to confirm bastille is doing its job is to go to www.grc.com, then to the shields up section, and have it probe your ports. it doesn't test all ports, but if all the ports return as closed rather than stealth, bastille isn't up. if they don't report as stealth run as root /etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall start Although the linuxconf error does not cause bastille to abort. I get that error as well, I just ignore it. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] About CD burning stuff.....?
On Thursday 29 November 2001 08:21 am, you wrote: On your Mandrake disc there are a whole bunch of CD burning apps. Here is my take on them. It is purely personal others will have other opinions :- snip Don't forget the one that started it all, cdrecord. It's command line but I actually find it to be easier and more intuitive than most of the gui frontends. A quick crash course of mkisofs and cdrecord and you'll be up and running. gui cd burning is one thing I don't like about linux at this point. Frontends should be simpler than the backend they are covering up :) Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:26 am, you wrote: if you don't see the nvidia splash screen when X starts, then they aren't installed right. you can run an /sbin/lsmod and make sure NVdriver is loaded, if not make sure you edited your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 correctly . Under modules you need load glx, and for your driver, change nv to nvidia, save it and restart X, you should then see the splash screen. Yeah, I wondered about the splash screen as it doesn't show up for me. But my framerate in tuxracer is very good now, and the mesa demos are screaming, so the drivers do seem to be working. I read nvidia's installation guide really thoroughly, I'm pretty sure I did everything correctly. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:07 am, you wrote: Well, I'm new to linux here, and finally settled with Mandrake after trying many different ones. However, I seem to have gotten stuck on my cable modem configuration. I have att@home and should be using dhcp to obtain my ip address. Basically what happens after I stop and restart the netowrk is getting the IP address fails. Any help with this would be much appreciated. @home gave you an ID number. It's in the form of Cxxx-A. In windows this is the name of your computer (control panel - network - identity tab). In linux, set that as your host name, use dhcp, and your cable modem should fire right up. The easiest way to set the host name is to go into mandrake control center, then network-connection-configure. the only downside is your bash prompt will be [user@cxxx-a user]$, although there's surely ways to change that. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dying connection
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 07:07 pm, you wrote: By the way, yesterday I wanted to restart the network from the internet setup GUI, but it didn't work. I found no better solution than reboot. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by you losing your connection. But one of the two methods below should get it up again. ifup eth0 or /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start (or reload or restart) Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 01:25 pm, you wrote: I have seen screen shots of people running this on linux and was wondering where I could find it. Any and all help would be appreciated. Are you sure it wasn't the Unix version? IE was made available for some flavors of Unix, but not Linux. The IE for Unix is also old and out of date. The day MS supported Linux, you'd know about it. It'd be enormous news. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 11:40 am, you wrote: Yeah, my big problem is I can't decide! Linux should come with just one browser! That way I don't have the choice problem. I'm always curious about different distros. I've only (briefly) tried RedHat and Caldera. I want to get another computer to mess with other linux/BSD distros. At the moment I just open a different browser on different desktops (including Lynx) for the hell of it. Deffinitly UN-productive:) Al least let there be a bad one among them so I can kick one out:( Oh there is, Netscape still comes with Mandrake. Did I hear someone wanting IE on Linux Definitly De Sade Porting the Mac IE to Linux would be awesome. Everyone forgets, there really does exist an excellent version of IE. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install newbie
On Thursday 29 November 2001 04:01 pm, you wrote: fistly lilo has set a defualt of 5 seconds to choose the desired os./ Can this be changedto 30 secs or whatever I want? the file you want is /etc/lilo.conf in there is a setting for timeout. You can change that to adjust how long it waits before booting. After making the change, you need to run lilo to make it take effect. Just type lilo at the prompt. All of what I just said about lilo needs to be done as root (type su then enter your root's password). Also how do I start xwindows or navigate through the installed software. startx at the prompt should start x. You can also set it up so X start at boot. When mandrake opens i give my user and p word on the cpomand line. I can navigate through the folder but most of ot seems to be system files. Make sure you are not root when you use your machine. Root is for administrating and if you use it as a regular account it wont be long before you screw something up :) Linux gives root full rule of the roost. But it makes sure regular accounts don't harm things. If you are using a regular account, you can pretty safely explore. Although I wouldn't recommend randomly trying things. The book Running Linux from OReilly will get you comfortable with Linux very quickly, at least it did for me. it's $35, but well worth it IMO. Be careful, you may not want to use Win2K much after you get the feel for linux :) Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Book recommendations
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:07 pm, you wrote: Santa just asked me what I want for Christmas. A Linux reference book, of course. But which book? Dennis Myers has already recommended O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell. Any other recommendations? Stuff along the lines of Linux in a Nutshell or references to other aspects of Linux? Running Linux, also from O'Reilly, is also a good general reference for Linux. If you plan to do any networking the Linux Network Administrators Guide pretty much covers it all. Also from O'Reilly (also available for free at www.linuxdoc.org if you don't mind an electronic version). I've found, generally speaking, you can't go wrong with O'Reilly. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XINE reccomendation: [was] mplayer error
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:52 am, you wrote: On 28 Nov 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote: I was able to get mplayer installed on my machine, from source, but I wasn't all that impressed. Take a look at xine. Much better overall, nicer gui, better playback, etc. And much easier to install! Agreed; xine is brilliant, on 7.2. It installed easily under 8.1 but breaks down on running the d4d plugin with a message which implies that 8.1 does not support raw devices, out of the box. What is needed is /dev/rdvd. Does that exist on your system, and if so, how did it get there? xine runs with d4d on my 8.1 machine just fine. I symlinked /dev/hdc (my dvd drive) to /dev/dvd. I don't get any error messages. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 11:23 am, you wrote: Is it reasonable to expect LM to detect the cable modem (I'm assuming that lots of folks on this list are using cable hookups)? Any pitfalls/traps? I'm using LM 8.0 on a Mac G4, and my cable connection was detected no problem. I had to do a little editing to a network script to add my client ID, but everything is working great at this point. --mapdock Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Video display garbled
On Monday 29 October 2001 08:00 pm, you wrote: I've finally received and installed LM8.0, hurray! (Thanks, s!) On one of my boxes the video display is garbled: duplicate images appear horizontally, corresponding with vertical bands of video noise. In addition, the display image is not scaled properly and some 3/4 of the desktop spills off the right and lower edges of the physical screen. My answer to this was to install and take the actual install-video setting instead of going with XFree86. I had no problem activating XFree86 as a post-install, but otherwise I was experiencing the same problem as you describe. --mapdock Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
on 10/26/01 12:13 AM, Franki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I wish to say is that the reason the US Judge wanted to split M$ into two or more companies was to split the OS off from the rest of their offerings. So that the application M$ would be on even ground with everyone else writing software so that we continue to have lots of competing software companies out there developing software for the windows platform. But that basically turns it into MS providing Windows as a charity to the industry so other companies can compete on it. Why should they do that? Why does MS have the burden of maintaining and developing an OS, just so other companies can come along and compete with them, sans that heavy burden? If MS is in the position of providing the very OS these companies need to create their products, why shouldn't they be given some incentive? Now I don't think MS should be allowed to bolt all these apps into the OS just so other companies don't stand a chance. But when it comes to developing the apps, an insider's perspective on the OS should be perfectly fine, if not used maliciously. I don't like MS, at all. But I also don't think MS should get shafted just because their MS. A monopoly is not necessarily illegal. There are some benefits a monopoly provides that are perfectly legal, and some that are not. In the case of MS, most everyone wants to just say it's all illegal because they hate MS. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
on 10/26/01 10:03 AM, michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that basically turns it into MS providing Windows as a charity to the industry so other companies can compete on it. Huh?? That would put MS in the position of providing Windows just so the industry can keep going. Why should they do that? Why does MS have the burden of maintaining and developing an OS, just so other companies can come along and compete with them, sans that heavy burden? If Have you ever met anyone who had their life's work bought out for pittance or worse stolen by microsoft in their process of 'developing' the Windows OS?? Their lack of ethics is the stuff legends are made from! Ethics is one thing, legality is another. I've stated several times in this thread I don't like MS at all. Just because I don't like them doesn't mean I automatically find them guilty. MS is in the position of providing the very OS these companies need to create their products, why shouldn't they be given some incentive? You give them your incentive. I'd rather give mine to the open source community- a much more diverse and creative group of people who puke at the thought of toeing the 'party line'.. I do the same. I do run Linux you know :) This is a perfect example of people letting their emotions get in front of their logic when trying to decide if MS did anything wrong. Then why do we have antitrust laws in the US? To take down monopolies that are anti-competitive. Monopolies are not always illegal. If you live in the US, there's a very good chance your phone, gas and electric companies are all monopolies. Monopolies are inherently anti-American and anti-capitalist in that they eliminate competition to produce better products... Sometimes. Not always. As I've said, monopolies are not automatically illegal. Some of what MS does is illegal as far as monopolistic practices. But some of it is not. Everyone wants to lump *all* of it as being illegal. That's all I'm saying. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
on 10/26/01 10:12 AM, Franki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for your comment on it being fine for M$ to use the kernel instead of the API's then you havent been reading the thread on this, there are heaps of reasons why that shouldn't be done. security realiability... etc.. It's hardly good coding practice, but it's also not illegal. If MS wants to make shoddy stuff, I'd say that's their choice. By can you honestly say you can think of a nice way for a company to use shortcuts that no-one else has access to? Sure, use your knowledge of the OS to create a better application. If M$ won't let any OEM's sell linux or any other OS dual boot with windows, and you need an OS, then people are not going to have a choise (I am talking about newbies here.) Yes, and that is wrong and most likely illegal. they will get windows, and if what you say is correct, they will use Office, IE, msm messanger, and all the other MS apps that have put their competition out of business or dangerously close to it.. I did not say that at all. I stated I think it's wrong to bolt the MS apps into Windows. Windows should ship like MacOS does, with very little added on. Not a future I want... what about you? Nope. It's also not at all what I was talking about. Whether I think MS is good for the industry is an entirely different matter. I'm simply saying that MS gets accused of illegal practices when not all of them are illegal. I'd love to see MS put in their place, but not by a lynch mob. One last point I would bring up, Microsoft got windows to where it is by using the developers, not by any technical merit of the OS itself.. It's rare that a product is successful on quality alone. Marketing, savvy business decisions, smart contracts (which is what bit Apple), and such are usually what make a product successful. There's no denying MS is very good at that. and they all jumped on board... not knowing that M$ would use their own software ideas to put them out of business one by one... Which is possibly illegal, it depends on how its done. Many of the ways MS has done it is probably illegal. The Windows you speak so highly of Woah, woah. I've never spoken highly of Windows in my life. It's quite possibly the worst family of OSes ever made. NT/2000/XP was based on work by IBM if I remember correctly. they split off, and went their seperate ways and from that single code body immerged OS2 and windows NT Microsoft and IBM co-developed OS2. I just don't think many people can objectively look at Microsoft. Way too many emotions brewing. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail (was: No Subject)
on 10/24/01 7:49 AM, Dan Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2001 06:10 am, Sridhar wrote: What version of KDE do you have? KMail has had this feature quite some time. How about the ability to insert a signature somewhere other than the end of a message. That was the one thing that had me using Sylpheed for a while (I'm back to Kmail because of all the accursed HTML email my clients send me). If I could insert a signature in an arbitrary spot without cutting and pasting, I'd be a happy emailer. I'm not at my linux box right now, but I do know kmail has this feature. It's in one of the menus when writing an email. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
